Simpson, James R.: - James R. Simpson is Affiliate Professor and Senior Fellow, Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service, Washington State University, Professor Emeritus, University of Florida, and Professor Emeritus, Ryukoku University, in Japan. His specialty as an international economist includes training and a career as a scientist in techniques and technologies that fit in robotics and artificial intelligence. He has focused on long-term projections of technological change as part of living and working abroad and has engaged in extensive consulting with organizations such as The World Bank. Publications include over 375 articles, monographs and software, and nine books. One of those, that has many hallmarks of the topics in this book, "Is Today's Food Situation Good for Japan? Warning from an American Researcher," was awarded Best Book of the Year by the Japanese Agricultural Journalists Association.